Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-02-07
State News items.

There were ll5 births and 65 deaths in
st. Adams village during 1886.
Civil service examinations for Vermont
will he held at Burlington May IA and Oc-
tober (.
Rev. +. Snow of Franklin. VIII deliver
the Decoration Day address at North
Troy, where he spoke last year.
Gertie Nelson, who attempted suicide
at Montpelier few days since by taking
dose of rough on rats, will recover.
Races have been arranged to take place
on the ice on Lake Champlain on We'd
nesday and Thursday. Feb. Is and Il, of
carnival week
A Burlington and Lamoille train ran
into a team at the High Bridge between
Winooski and Burlington recently, and
killed the horse.
DIR. Forest of New York. who gradual
ed from the University of Vermont in
1884, has given S4OO to that institution
for elocution prizes.
The Vermont examining surgeons say
that more than one-half of the applicants
for pensions examined by them are suffer-
ing from heart disease
Congressman Grout has appointed jon
athan A. Timkins of Albany to the cadet
ship at West Point, which has been va
cant for year or more.
Preparations are being made to cele-
brate the centennial of the State Normal |
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trustees has been appointed for the pur
pose.
From carload of western horses which |
arrived in Vermont recently, two fine ami
escaped near Chicago and could not be
recaptured.
Fred Houghton, auditor OF the state
Dairymen's Association, owns the famous
Houghton cattle farm at Putney, and his
Holsteins are said to be among the best
in the country.
Geo. T. Moseley, a veteran express
messenger, will have been on the line
from Bellows Falls to Springfield, Mass,
twenty-three years next month. The trip
makes him 900 miles a week.
A freight train on the Central Vermont
railroad broke in two at Milton Hollow
and the divided portions of the
train subsequently came together, break
ing several drawbars, and throwing two
cars from the track.
Eustis O'Clare, who, with Fred Bonn
bard and William jerome, escaped from
Burlington Jail August last by attacking
the sheriff with chair rounds, was captur-
ed in Canada Friday and brought to Bur-
lington, where he was lodged in Jail.
Rev. DIR. n. G. Clark, secretary of the
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, speaking at the Yer
mont dinner in Boston, said that there are
now ten Vermonters in Turkey endeavor-
ing to establish Christianity in that en-
pire.
John Smith, of Shrewsbury, drove to
Rutland about two weeks ago, and his
family had heard nothing from him until
last Saturday, when his wife received
letter from him mailed from town in
Northern New York. No cause is given
AOI
o. S. Annis has been appointed post
master at Westfield, S. p. Pinney at
L. NJ. Buchanan at Brown !
ngton Center, and William j. Bixby at
East Orange. The office at South Peach
Am has been re-established and Charles I
appointed postmaster.
Ed. Debaund, a German. twenty-three /
years old and unmarried, was stealing a
tide on passenger train on the Connect :
cut river railroad Friday evening. He i
jumped from the rear end of the train
while crossing the bridge over the Conn
ecticnt river. and fell distance of seven
" feet. He struck on the ice and was
killed.
Charles, seven years old son of Chris
Opher Yattaw of Vergennes, was shot in
he head by gun with which Fred Z.
sanders was playing recently. Sanders
apparently did not know that the shot
run was loaded and began swapping the
hammer. The gun went off on the sec
md trial, the charge entering Yattaw's
lead and tearing out an eye. The wound
vas declared fatal.